For Bitcoin at least: - no trust required —> credit free —> cheaper to transact - greater access for the unbanked and protection against debanking - well known, only changeable by consensus monetary policy is a world first. Powerful if you’ve seen the cost of groceries recently
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2y agoit’s kinda wild that I’ve still yet to hear a single valuable use case for cryptocurrency beyond just buying drugs and money laundering
Maybe it’s the balkanization of social that we actually want?
A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so. https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto
newsletter.mollywhite.net
I don’t think I’ve actually ever looked at the dunkin donuts menu
"We believe it’s important for Mastodon to be good as a product on its own merits, and not just because of its ideology. If we only attract people who already care about decentralization, our ability to make decentralization mainstream becomes that much harder." louder for the people in the back
They needed to add aoc and dril ~ the same time to keep the balance right